Dodging popular UK firebrand may not be PM's best step

It probably would've been good for the PM to have met Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, an expert says. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS)

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese should have met with Nigel Farage while visiting the UK on the chance the hard-right leader becomes Britain's next prime minister, a leading analyst says.

Mr Albanese sat down with his counterpart Keir Starmer, other progressive world leaders and British opposition leader Kemi Badenoch on his UK trip.